F. Fasso et al., NEKHOROSHEV-STABILITY OF ELLIPTIC EQUILIBRIA OF HAMILTONIAN-SYSTEMS, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 197(2), 1998, pp. 347-360
We prove a conjecture by N.N. Nekhoroshev about the long-time stabilit
y of elliptic equilibria of Hamiltonian systems, without any Diophanti
ne condition on the frequencies, Higher order terms of the Hamiltonian
are used to provide convexity, The singularity of the action-angle co
ordinates at the origin is overcome by working in cartesian coordinate
s.